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1994minor softening to head and tail of spine, foxing to page block, creasing to corners of pages 703 - 713, otherwise text clean and tight Ex - Library
1993Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. Book three of the mini company histories of thirty-one American trucking companies, celebrating 100 years of existence since the first firms were set up in 1890 - the small companies who led the way with trade and transport across North America. Each mini history is accompanied by at least one full-page image of one of their trucks. Extremely scarce.
Best.-Nr. 2414588373.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Best.-Nr. 0364913681.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0260104957.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1527737233.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
191656 pages. Covers The Five Positions and Their Employment - Practical Study of the Demanche. Translated from the third French edition. "Adopted by the Conservatories of Brussels, Amsterdam, The Hague, Glasgow, Cologne, Aix-la-Chapelle, and the principal Academies of Belgium, Holland, Rhenish Prussia, France, South America, etc. Clean with moderate wear. Prior owner's signature and ink stamp inside front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Please note: we are offering part II only of this four part work. Book
1992208 pages including index and bibliography. Virtual slaves, these children were uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors. "This extremely, unusual study, enlivened by photographs, throws a floodlight on ethnic prejudice, cultural constructs of childhood, Tammany Hall politics and 19th-century immigration and working conditions." - Publishers Weekly. Very light wear. Glossy laminated covers. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
Best.-Nr. 61071173Blackwell Publishing . Papeback. New. pp. xi 449 Blackwell Publishing unknown
Best.-Nr. 260519024Audio CD. Used: Very Good. 5x5x0. Very good condition. From a private collection. Comes from non smoking home. unknown
1890Best.-Nr. 164641890. Young Women's Christian Association. Employment Agency Branch 1890s an organizational pamphlet documenting the policies governing a YWCA employment agency in York and the institutional mechanisms used to connect women seeking paid work with prospective employment. By the late nineteenth century YWCA branches had expanded beyond religious fellowship to provide practical services including housing vocational instruction and employment placement for women; YWCA histories record the establishment of employment bureaus and typewriting training during this period. The present pamphlet shows that employment-assistance system in practice through formal agency policies providing primary-source evidence for the study of women's labor charitable and religious social-service networks vocational placement and the changing economic position of women in late Victorian Britain. Young Women's Christian Association. Employment Agency Branch. York: Young Women's Christian Association 1890s. Self-wrappers. Pagination and dimensions not supplied. The pamphlet sets forth policies for the Association's Employment Agency Department defining the administrative framework through which the branch managed employment assistance. Its significance lies in the practical structure it records: rather than merely advocating women's economic independence the agency created a formal mechanism through which applicants and employers could be brought into contact under organizational supervision. This activity belongs to a broader late nineteenth-century transformation in women's work when employment opportunities were still strongly divided by gender but were beginning to expand into clerical professional retail medical and other occupations previously less accessible to women. The York employment agency belongs to the wider history of women's voluntary organizations intervening directly in the labor market by providing placement services training and institutional support. Such services were particularly significant for women navigating an employment landscape in which occupational options and wages remained constrained by gender. The pamphlet therefore offers evidence not simply of YWCA philanthropy but of the administrative infrastructure developed to facilitate women's entry into paid work. No specific physical defects are supplied; overall very good. A concise primary source documenting how a late Victorian women's organization translated social-service aims into a structured employment-placement program. unknown
Best.-Nr. 57341792-6Progressive Business Publications. Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Progressive Business Publications unknown
Best.-Nr. 1933043490.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2008Best.-Nr. SONG1570185921Brand: BNA Books 2008-10-30. Supplement. paperback. Used: Good. 7.00x1.50x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: BNA Books paperback
1883Best.-Nr. 1151581883 A Paris, Guimmaumin & Cie, éditeurs / Auguste Ghio, éditeur - 1883 - In-8, broché - 127 p.
Best.-Nr. a95469Washington DC March 1993 first edition. Smithsonian. 4to wraps. Light depository library marks. not paginated consecutively about 100 pages. VG. . paperback
1892Best.-Nr. 164651892. Young Women's Christian Association. The Y.W.C.A. Crescent July 1892 an early organizational newsletter carrying the motto "Our Aim is Progress" and documenting the public identity of the Young Women's Christian Association during the late nineteenth-century expansion of women's religious educational employment and associational activity. The emphatic language of "progress" places the publication within a culture of organized female self-improvement and collective advancement providing contemporary evidence of how a women-led Christian association presented its aims to members and readers. Without further description of the issue's internal articles its strongest interpretive value lies in this representation of YWCA community identity and the language through which women's organized activity was framed in the 1890s. The Y.W.C.A. Crescent. Vol. 2 No. 4. Young Women's Christian Association July 1892. Newsletter bearing the slogan "Our Aim is Progress." Pagination place of publication dimensions and specific internal contents are not supplied. As the fourth number of the publication's second volume the issue demonstrates an established serial publishing effort by the Association and provides material evidence of the periodical culture through which women's voluntary organizations maintained a recognizable institutional voice. An exact surviving example is independently cataloged under this title volume number and date. The issue belongs to the broader history of women's associational print culture at the close of the nineteenth century when newsletters and organizational periodicals helped sustain communities formed around religious fellowship education employment assistance and women's social development. The phrase "Our Aim is Progress" is particularly evocative of the aspirational vocabulary used by women's organizations seeking to define expanded roles for women within modern urban and professional life although the specific contents of this issue should not be inferred without examination. Covers loose or separated from the body of the newsletter; otherwise no specific defects supplied; overall very good. An early YWCA periodical useful for the study of women's organizational culture institutional publishing and the rhetoric of female advancement in the 1890s. unknown
1986Previous owner's name/label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very slightly sunned boards, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 368pp. Results of the UN University survey on migrant workers to the Arab world from seven Asian countries - Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Republic of Korea, The Philippines and Thailand. Scarce.
Best.-Nr. 16053Without date or place. Between 1816 and 1833. 1p. 12mo. On bifolium with the verso of the second leaf addressed to 'J. T. Smith esqr.' In fair condition on aged and worn paper. The letter begins: 'My dear Sir May I rely upon the kindness you have so often shewn me in adding once more to your many attentions - it is to introduced the bearer who is my eldest son to the librarian in order to his obtaining leave to read and also to copy out any extract from the Harleian or other collections.' He explains that the Marquess Wellesley 'who as Steward of the Kings Household is sone of the Trustees of the Museum has asked me for the copy of a pedigree of his family from one of the Harleian MSS. of which my son has theh reference'. Without date or place. [Between 1816 and 1833.] unknown
Best.-Nr. 0080377610.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 10146comprenant la description des fleurs annuelles, vivaces et bulbes de pleine terre, suivies de classements divers indiquant l’emploi de ces plantes et l’époque de leur floraison. Avec des exemples de leur ornementation en divers genres. In 8 demi-toile muette. Faux-titre, VII, 1563 pages, plus de 1300 figures dans le texte, 3 plans dépliants dont un en couleurs. Paris chez Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie, sans date. Un petit angle supérieur droit page de faux de titre. Bon état d’ensemble
Best.-Nr. 16205Employment. Photograph: Early 1900s. Sepia photo showing a line of ten women seated in front of filing cabinets busy at work organizing small documents. Photo is in good condition with small loss in upper right corner and green discoloration at lower right edge. 8 ¾ x 7 ¾ in. Good quality with overall fading to image with three faint fingerprints in ink. Photograph verso has stamp from Swedish photographer Erik Holmen along with graphite and blue pencil inscriptions in Swedish. While this photo was taken in the modern age with a phone and electrical lights prominently displayed many of women's job opportunities were gendered and limited to menial tasks. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 16206Women's Employment. Photograph: Original Vintage Gelatin silver print Photograph of Women Civil Servants 1918. Black and white photograph showing a room of over one hundred women seated at crowded desks and tables reading and sifting through piles of letters. 6 x 8 in. Press photo with many handwritten pencil inscriptions in English and Swedish and two stamps. One inscription on center back reads: "The work of the postal censorship. The room where letters to from German prisoners of war are examined". Another line reads: "Engleska postcensuren 1918" or "English postal censorship 1918" in Swedish. Overall good condition with light scattered creasing but a crisp and clear image. An interesting image that shows an one unique way that women's labor and intellectual skills were important to support the war effort of World War I. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 0967050529-11-1Minnesota Department of Economic Security. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Minnesota Department of Economic Security unknown
1989Signed by one of contributors on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty, very slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 405pp. A collection of papers covering different area of Africa and examining forced labour and labour migration during the 19th and 20th centuries from Senegal to Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia.